Final Crisis: Revelations #5 - DC

And with this issue . . . the Final Crisis is wrapped up. Well . . . sort of. First of all, I should've read this issue before Final Crisis #7. But, I was excited to read it, since I was also reading #6 . . and I jumped ahead. But that's ok. It still all fit together quite nicely. And, we still have the Legion of 3 Worlds story-line to wrap up. But, I don't think that necessarily is going to affect the Final Crisis as much as it's affected by it. I think the Legion of 3 Worlds story-line comes about because of the Final Crisis. Not the other way around. So that story doesn't really have any bearing on this one. This issue was tremendous. Greg Rucka has done a fantastic job with this story. And it's been going on ever since the Crime Bible mini-series. I also think DC pulled an amazing 'coup by getting Phillip Tan to do this series. His artwork on this series has been simply amazing. Anyways, through this story, the Question and the Huntress do indeed defeat Cain. They do it because the want to help Radiant and to help release the Spectre. All they have to do is fight Cain, and all of his minions, and retrieve the sword of destiny. Unfortunately, it turns out that the only way for Renee to retrieve the sword . . is to become impaled by it. But, that act imbues Radian with life, and faith and hope. And it also is the turning point the frees the Spectre, and by that defeats Cain and his army. Also Crispus and the Spectre have a better understanding of their role as god's fist through all of this. From here they go to confront Darkseid. Which occurs in Final Crisis #7. This was a pretty powerful book, and overall it was a great chapter in the series that's been created here. In the beginning, I said that the Final Crisis was over . . . kind of. By that I mean . . there's a lot of things that have been changed, or left behind because of all of this. I believe that more important than this story itself is the changes and effects it's going to have on the DC Universe afterwards. Things aren't going to be the same, or return to normal. Changes have been made, and things have happened that will affect these characters and story-lines for . . . well, maybe from this point forward. The point is, after this series . . the entirety of the DC Universe is going to have quite a different feel to it.